The ghost slug, Selenochlamys ysbryda, is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.
The species was discovered in 2006 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales and was formally described and named in 2008 by Ben Rowson, a research assistant and PhD candidate at the National Museum Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru), and Bill Symondson, an ecologist at Cardiff University.
In 2012 a single specimen of Selenochlamys cf. ysbryda was rediscovered in a collection made in 1989 from a natural mountain forest in the Crimea in the Ukraine. Probably the Crimean mountains are within the native range of this species.
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